William stephenson



(No Model.)

. 'W. STEPHENSON.

GROUND AUGEE.

No. 260,798. Patented July 11, 1882.

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WILLIAM STEPHENSON, OF JORDAN, ONTARIO, CANADA.

GROUND-AUGER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 260,798, dated July 11,1882,

Application filed July 26, 1881. (No model.) Patented in Canada March12, 1881, No. 12,5194.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, WILLIAM STEPHENSON, ofJordan, in the county of Lincoln, in the Province of Ontario, Dominionof Canada, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inGround-Angers; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full,clear, and exact description of the construction and operation of thesame.

The object of myinvention is to improve certain details of constructionin earth-angers and to such end it consists in the features ofconstruction and combination hereinafter fully described, andspecifically indicated in the claim.

By reference to the drawings forming part of this specification it willbe seen that Figure 1 represents an elevation of the auger. Fig. 2 is aplan View of the underside of the device employed in connection with thedevice shown in Fig. 3. Fig. 3 shows sections of gas-piping, which arescrewed into the disk for well-borin g.

up on the outside with a sharp edge, a. G is the central rod, passingthrough the hollow tube A and projecting through the bottom.

. terminating in a screw-point ,,G, of any desired any desired number ofsections of gas-pipe can be employed, the rod having the anger orscrew-point G at its lower end being of course adapted in length to thelength of pipe, and hence for different lengths of tubes rods ofdifferent lengths can be used.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim is As an improvement inearth-angers, the combination, with the tubular stock A and cross-handleB, of the radially-slotteddisk C D, provided with bits, and having acentral hub receiving the lower end of the stock, and the rod G,terminating at its lower end in the auger G, and extending up throughboth the tubular stock and the cross-handle, and exteriorly connectedwith the latter, all substantially in the manner and for the purposedescribed.

Dated at St. Oatharines, Ontario, Canada, this 20th day of July, A. D.1.881.

YVM. STEPHENSON.

In presence of E. O, GOODMAN, L. H. UULLARD.

